Thursday, August 20, 2015

"I believe I've reached this point where I have no regrets and no bitterness," I wrote recently on Facebook. A few of my friends questioned that statement, so I would like to clarify.

Really,
there are a few things that I would - if I could - go back and do differently.
Definitely.

Probably there are many things I would do differently, but there are a few that
stand out from the rest.

There was the time I told someone I was thinking about what to do with the rest
of my life, but what she heard was, "I'm going to take you down". Of
course, it was way more complicated than that. But I could have been more
careful with my words, and I've always been sad it turned out that way.

There was the time I got caught up in a cult, and because I had to leave my
mom, I got mad at her (go figure).

There have also been simple human mistakes I made that may have caused serious harm
to loved ones.

I would be irresponsible or calloused if I said that if I had all those things
to do over again, I would do exactly the same thing.

But that's not what I meant when I said that I have no regrets. Here's what I
meant:

I no longer beat myself up.

I'm not only a sinful person but I'm also a fallible person. I guess that's why
they call me a human. And I'm in good company.

King David saw a beautiful woman who caught his eye, so he sent her husband
into battle to be killed. David repented, and he went on serving God.

Mary and Joseph, the best of parents, lost Jesus for three days on the way home
from the temple when he was twelve. True, Jesus knew where he was and what he
was doing. But, although Mary was sinless and Joseph is called "the just
man", they were human, and they didn't know where he was.

Maybe what I meant when I said I have no regrets is that God made me human,
and I don't regret being human.

I laugh. I
cry. I get mad. I rejoice. I sin. And I make mistakes. And God "gets
that". Sometimes there are consequences to sin, and I might regret the
consequences; and sometimes simple mistakes that are not sins at all go horribly wrong. Because darn, we are human. And sometimes I might still be sad about some of those things.

But I no longer beat myself up.

Because
God is good. And God is love. God loves me. God loves those who have been hurt in some way because I am human. God loves my loved ones way, way more than I do.

Know that God loves you. Know that He loves your loved ones even more than you do. God loves us every minute of every day - until he will love us every
moment of eternity.

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Why "Simple Faith"? Jesus said we should become as little children, and St. Therese reminded us of that, with her childlike faith. "Childlike" is not immature - not childish - but "simply trusting" in God, and in His goodness and love for us...for each and every one of us.

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